Your block,
right now.
One free app that shows New York the way the city sees it. Live public street cameras, your street sweeping countdown, subway arrivals, verified free things to do, and hundreds of city tools in plain English. Built for New Yorkers and for visitors.
Free. No accounts, no ads, always $0.
Live street cameras
The city's own public traffic cameras on one calm dusk map. Watch your corner, your school route, or the block you are about to park on.
Move-the-car countdown
Street sweeping and trash rules for your block, read out in plain English with an honest countdown. No more decoding the sign.
Subway near you
Your closest stations with live arrival times from the MTA's public feeds. A real usable transit layer is in the works, with live bus times to follow.
Free NYC inside
A full guide to verified free things to do across Manhattan. Real events checked against official sources, plus passport hunts that turn the city into a game.
268 city tools
Benefits, housing, schools, IDs, courts, parks, and more, each explained in plain words with links to the official source. Depth without the jargon.
City pulse
Live 311 activity near you, street closures, filming near your block, and weather alerts, straight from the city's open data.
A closer look
Built on the city's own data
NYCHawk reads public feeds from NYC DOT, NYC Open Data, the National Weather Service, and the MTA's public schedule and arrival feeds. Nothing is scraped and nothing is made up. When a data source is a pilot or covers only part of the city, the app says so on the screen.
Next up: official live bus arrival times and road incident alerts from public transit and traffic data sources, so riders and drivers get the same honest, real-time picture.
Put it on your phone today
NYCHawk is in open beta. You can have it in your pocket now through TestFlight, Apple's free app for trying things early. Take it out on the street and tell us what the city would not tell you.
On a computer, point your phone camera at the code. On an iPhone, tap the button. You will need Apple's free TestFlight app, which it will offer to install.
Or just wait for launch
Not one for betas? Leave your email and we will send you one message, once, on the day it reaches the App Store. That is the only reason we would ever write to you.
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